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On Mar 28, 2010, at 9:00 AM, Costello, Roger L. wrote: > > RECAP > > Declarative programs describe the relationship of the output to the input. > Declarative programs describe the problem. > Declarative programs define reusable concepts; functions are typically the programming machinery used for defining concepts. > Declarative programs assemble concepts to create bigger concepts, i.e., functional composition. > Declarative programs allow the computer to devise its own execution plan, which may enable the program to be executed in any order or even in parallel. > Declarative programs do _not_ have instructions or statements. > Declarative programs do _not_ tell the computer what to do, i.e., how to solve the problem. > Declarative programs do _not_ tell what values to put into particular memory locations. > Declarative programs do _not_ have variables that vary. > Declarative programs do _not_ impose a particular execution plan on the computer. > > /Roger Functional programming is another name for this. See the paper, "Why Functional Programming Matters" http://www.cs.chalmers.se/~rjmh/Papers/whyfp.html. Another way to look at it is that declarative programming tends to look at programs as data, not as instructions... people with a declarative mindset tend to generate and manipulate programs, just as they would any other data.
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